Machine for starting hat-bodies



(No Model.)

W. P. MAHONEY. MACHINE FOR STARTING HAT BODIES.

No. 406,658. Patented July 9, 1889..

NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM P. MAHONEY, OF NEVVB'URYPORT, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO CHARLES H. FOLSOM, OF BROOKLYN, NEIV YORK." I

MACHINE FOR STARTING HAT-BODIES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 406,658, dated July 9,1889.

Application filed leptember 25, 1888. Serial No. 286,344. (No model.)

Toall whom it may concern: The frame-Work A has secured to it up Be itknown that 1, WILLIAM P. MAHONEY, rights I), having bearings for a second roller of Newburyport, county of Essex, State of 1), preferably of less diameter than the roller Massachusetts, have invented an Improvea, the roller 1), having its periphery of other ment in Machines for Starting Hat-Bodies, of than round shape to form edges or ribs b which the following description, in connecpreferably made more prominent than the tion with the accompanying drawings, is a ribs or edges on the roller a. The roller 1) is specification, like letters on the drawings replocated above and to one side of the center resenting like partsof the roller a, to form or leave a pocket in IQ This invention relates to machines emwhich the roll 0 of hats to be treated is placed,

ployed in the manufacture of felt hats, and as clearlyshown in Fig. 3. I isan improvement upon the machine shown The shafts of the rollers a b are respectand described in another application, Serial ively provided, as shown, with pulleys c 0 No. 257,298, filed by me December S, 1887. connected by a belt, chain, or band a, to pror 5 In the manufacture of felt hats the hat is duce rotation of the said rollers in the same taken from the former and wrapped in cloth, direction, the shaft a of the roller a being and then immersed in hot water and rolled or provided with a belt-pulley 0 which in pracmanipulated to start the interlocking of the tice is connected by a suitable belt (not fiber for the formation of felt. This prelimishown) to a counter or other shaft.

20 nary step in hat-making is commonly and In operation the hat-bodies are scalded or most eifectually carried on by hand; but the immersed in Water contained in the tank d, hand process is slow and tedious. of usual construction, and are then placed in My present invention has for its object to the pocket between the rollers a b',as shown provide a simple yet effective machine for in Fig. 3, where they are rolled and tumbled.

2 5 treating felt hats, the said machine acting The sharp edges or ribs on the rollers a b upon the felt in substantially the same mannip or squeeze the hat-bodies for substanner as when treated by hand. tially an instant and then let go, whereupon My invention in starting-machines for hatthat portion of the felt acted upon by the said bodies therefore consists, essentially, in the ribs or edges tends to spring back or resume 3o combination, with a roller having its periphits normal position or condition. In this ery of other than round shape to form ribs or way the squeezing actionof the hand operaedges, of a second roller,preferably of smaller tion of starting felt bodies is approached by diameter and having its periphery of other machinery, whereby a better effect or result than round shape to form edges or ribs and is obtained than heretofore by starting-ma- 3 5 located above the larger roller to form a chines. 8 pocket for the reception of the hat-bodies to After the hatbodies have been manipube treated and rotating at a greater speed lated, as above described, they are removed than the first roller, substantially as will be from the machine and further treated in feltdescribed. ing and sizing machines in ordinary manner.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a starting- It will be noticed that the surface speed of 0 'machine embodying my invention; Fig. 2, a the roller a is greater than the roller 12', top or plan View of the machine shown in whereby the roll of hats is maintained in po- Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 a detail on an enlarged sition to be acted upon by the ribs on the scale of the operating-rollers. said rollers, as the said roll of hats becomes 4 5 The frame-Work A, of suitable shape to supsmaller or of less diameter. 9

port the working parts, is provided with suit- I claimable bo'xes'a, for the journals of the shaft a 1. In a starting-machine for hat-bodies, the of a roller a, of considerable size and having combination, with a roller having its periphits periphery of other than round shape, to cry of other than round shape to form ribs or 50 form edges or ribs a V edges, of a second roller having its periphery IOO of other than round shape to form edges or ribs and supported in fixed bearings above the first roller to form a pocket for the reception of the hat-bodies to be treated, and rotating at a greater speed than the first roller,

whereby a squeezing action is obtained, su-b;

stantially as described.

2. In a starting-machine for hat-b0dies,the combination,with a roller having its periphery of other than round shape to form ribsor edges, of a second roller of smaller diameter and having its periphery of other than round shape to form-edges or ribs and supported in fixed bearings having its center above the periphery of the larger roller to form a pocket I 5 for the reception of the hat-bodies to be treated, and rotating at a greater speed than the larger roller, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof 1 have signed my name I to this specification in the presence of two sub- 20 scribing Witnesses.

WILLIAM P. MAHONEY.

Witnesses:

J AS. H. CHURCHILL, M. RAY. 

